This Saturday!

Nice work, everyone! Keep it up!

Lindsay Graham was not just one of politics’ greatest worms, he was one of AMERICA’s greatest worms. Now he is in worm heaven, playing with that that great worm rock n roll band. Goodbye forever, monumental worm, you believed in nothing and it all worked out!

The King under the Mountain 🏔️

I work with people new to gamedev, the more someone used AI before the higher risk they -cut corners -don't take time to learn skills -won't ask for help -underestimate what other people know -negative value to team, slowdown -can't evaluate info quality -weak follow through hard to undo AIs damage

lorcana pieces I'm proudest of carousel 💜

an extra little painting for The Wizard, The Witch, & The Wild One graphic novel 🌞🌱

thanks! ☺️ for the inking I used one of the standard procreate brushes (I’m not sure which, maybe Timberline?) and for painting I think it was mostly @maxulichney.bsky.social‘s watercolor brush set!

It's finally time for me to get into Blender. Does anyone have recommended tutorials and resources for a 20 year Maya veteran (that isn't Blender Guru)? I think my needs for now are basic scene blocking and lighting for painting references but I'd like to eventually get into Grease Pencil an more.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

with a trillion dollars, elon can pay one million people one million dollars to pretend they are him playing a video game

Consumer facing "A.i." is about triggering the excretion of a mediocre product. It's a rejection of PROCESS. Life itself is process, not fucking product. Push "A.i." on kids and you rob them of the joyful experience of life itself. I am not exaggerating.

Portfolio of the Day | Tom Booth → buff.ly/NsP87c7 #art #portfolio #illustration #drawing

Feeling very thankful for our lives these days. Sketched live in the grass at the Rose Bowl and finished at home. Testing some new #procreate brushes in the process. #MaxPacks

I keep trying to find different combinations of words to see if anything clicks

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Now that Jorge Gutiérrez has stepped away from his AI project I'm feeling a lot of things. I'm glad that he listened but the fact that he signed on to begin with assumes he thought it would go fine originally? That's insane. The resulting outrage was the most obvious outcome.

This really is it, this is the part that keeps me raging against the machine. Every day of my career I’m shoulder to shoulder with incredible people, pouring their skill & point of view into the work they do, making choices that amaze and delight me. Frame by frame, drawing by drawing…that’s THE job

‘Amphibia’ creator Matt Braly speaks out against the use of AI in animation: “If you need to partner with AI to get a greenlight on your project, it ain’t worth it.”

When I see an AI summary, I avert my eyes like I walked in on my grandmother changing clothes.

new sticker coming up soon that fits my current mood

A few more thoughts about Jorge Gutierrez. Small point but it's funny to me that his only official statement was on X where more sympathetic chuds would be. We're now all forced to recontextualize and question all of his past statements now that we know this is who he really is.

Saw a post saying Jorge Gutierrez was "broken" into embracing CRAP as a targeted attack on creatives. I reject this framing. Gutierrez is a grown ass man who is in full control of his faculties and actions. We have got to stop infantilizing prominent creatives when they get involved with shit

This is so deeply upsetting. I expected much better from Jorge. I hope everyone sees that nobody is too popular to avoid being blacklisted for using AI. Our community deserves and expects better. Let this be a lesson. What a huge betrayal.

The gang’s all here…

Uline continues to be a piece of shit company that you should never purchase from, and if you work in an office or other corporate environment, showing them alternatives that are the same price can go a long way to moving people away from them

Little guyyy (from a color demo at illuma fest this past weekend!)

yeah please don't do this no matter how you phraze it, I always take it as "the only way for me to enjoy your art is to recognize it as derivative & reminding me of something that already exists"

What a great day at Downtown Disney for the launch of @disneylorcana Wilds Unknown! I signed over 200 items including a handful of Powerlines, some of which were in Japanese- a first for me. Thanks to everyone who came out and waited in line from early in the morning and who drove in from far away.

This is a very good thread about AI.

Merida for the new @disneylorcana Wilds Unknown set. My art is also used on the card packs and boxes which is such an honor. Come see me at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney on launch day May 8th to meet me and get your cards signed! I’ll also be at Fire and Dice Games on Saturday May 9th!

Zipper for the new @disneylorcana Wilds Unknown set. I had a fun time designing this original costume. Come see me at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney on launch day May 8th to meet me and get your cards signed! I’ll also be at Fire and Dice Games on Saturday May 9th!

Gadget Hackwrench for the new @disneylorcana Wilds Unknown set. I also got to design her original costume. Come see me at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney on launch day May 8th to meet me and get your cards signed! I’ll also be at Fire and Dice Games on Saturday May 9th!

Toy Story is one of my favorite movies so it was a huge privilege to paint this Woody card for the new @disneylorcana Wilds Unknown set. Come see me at Disneyland's Downtown Disney on launch day May 8th to meet me and get your cards signed! I’ll also be at Fire and Dice Games on Saturday May 9th!

I suspect that the Powers That Be looooove AI because it disengages your brain and softens your thinking. Your free thought, your imagination, gets unplugged and into the socket, the AI node goes. And they control that node. Which means they control your mind. So: they start with kids.

Making a YouTube account to post comics on. If I can get 1,000 followers and 10M views, I can monetize. Easy! If anybody would care to follow along, I’d appreciate it: youtube.com/@toonholechris

my hope for young creative people is that they strive to do more than create "content" "content" is the word of the enemy

Hey, here's a great list by @jmassat.bsky.social of every writer/pitch bible for animated shows from the internet archive! jmassat.com/2024/08/05/e...

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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.